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Re: Google Reader shutting down

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Post by greenmountin »

sbarre wrote: post #624
tvchurch wrote: post #163

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I'd note that Readertron (readertron.com) was built by a guy who was frustrated when Google nerfed the sharing among friends feature. MIght want to give it a shot.

I am interested in Google Reader replacements, but that site has zero information for me before asking me for my email and to sign up.. Hmmmm

It actually looks pretty good, I was disappointed that there weren't any evangelists listing it in the other threads.

I signed up in two seconds by using a mailinator address. It looks like an exact clone + sharing/contacts. On revisiting though, the XML import failed. Too bad.

Re: Google Reader shutting down

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Post by patrickk »

at-fates-hands wrote: post #669
patrickk wrote: post #608

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Check out the periodic table of SEO: http://searchengineland.com/seotable Kalzmeus on SEO (click around his blog for more, guy's a genius): http://www.kalzumeus.com/2010/01/24/startup-seo/ Also some quick, simple advice: 1. Blog 2/3 times per week minimum. Target a single, relevant keyword per blog post (relevant to your domain). The post title, H1s, H2s etc, image tags should all contain your primary keyword. Blog p…

Being successful at SEO is almost the same as starting your own company. Any one of these is a full-time proposition. I would seek out professional SEO company's and try to find the best deal. No way anybody could do all this stuff by themselves. In the end, it will be a worthwhile investment. From my own experience it's very time consuming to get it right.

Agreed. I do most of the above as an employee in a startup company, and we use Hubspot to have most of our marketing efforts "under one roof".

However if you're a bootstrapped company, you may not have a choice but to put the time in yourself rather than paying for professional SEO services.

If you have a technical and non-technical co-founders, this list is a large chunk of what the non-technical guy should/will be doing.

Building a great product that people want is pointless without letting people know about it.

Re: Google Reader shutting down

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Post by devesh »

It’s sad to see google killing one of the most useful service. Though, there’s a petition going on to keep the Google Reader running https://www.change.org/petitions/google-keep-google-reader-r... and more than 40k+ people have signed it.

If Google still decides to kill the service, I am going to use Feedly ;).

Re: Google Reader shutting down

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Post by [deleted] »

beambot wrote: post #386

Does anyone know of an extraction tool to pull down all your starred items (in addition to feeds) into some semi-structured format -- even just a big, single HTML file? I've got YEARS of starred items "saved" in Reader. I use it everyday to stay abreast of news (1000+ items / day). Between Google Reader and iGoogle... Google has deprecated most of the tools I use on a regular basis. This makes me seriously question u…

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Re: Google Reader shutting down

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Post by Fuzzwah »

Since I'm one of those "weekend hackers who likes to use PHP like a newb"......

I use a self hosted and rather hacked up rnews install: http://rnews.sourceforge.net/

It uses magpierss to grab feeds: http://magpierss.sourceforge.net/

I also make heavy use of yahoo pipes to munge together a few rss feeds and do other regex'y type things to a feeds: http://pipes.yahoo.com (pls yahoo, never kill pipes!)

The reason I like rnews is the boxed layout (where each feed is seperated), rather than every other rss reader which jams everything into a single feed. With the boxed way I have the feeds I read daily up top and then progressively have boxes for sites which I only skim headlines for every week down lower.

I have a side question which I've been meaning to float on HN for some time: is there anything cool I could do with the fact that my self hosted rss aggregator receives roughly 2,000 hits a day from search bots? I mean I get scraped constantly all day, from ALL engines.

Re: Google Reader shutting down

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Post by inafield »

crucialfelix wrote: post #373

bastards. they never seem to realize how much they damage our trust with these actions. it effects all of their future products. I don't trust them anymore. anyway feedly has a replacement coming soon: http://blog.feedly.com/2013/03/14/google-reader/ > We have been working on a project called Normandy which is a feedly clone of the Google Reader API – running on Google App Engine. When Google Reader shuts down, feedl…

It's not a replacement, it's just the back-end that is getting replaced. Feedly will just change its back-end to Normandy instead of Google Reader.

Re: Google Reader shutting down

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Post by mkr-hn »

When choosing your new reader, look for the one that's already monetized. Feedly has ads and plans for premium. NewsBlur has a paid option. Any hosted option without financial incentive lives at the whim of the developer.

Re: Google Reader shutting down

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Post by alxndr »

chrisbolt wrote: post #333
SeppoErviala wrote: post #267

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I would like more powerful filtering options and better recommendations. For example, Hacker News feed is impossible to follow as RSS on reader as it has too high volume (for me at least). I would be content with ~40 daily recommendations. Google reader had decent random recommendations before the G+ update. I believe that a good recommendation system can guess relevant items for given user, but that was not what goo…

I long ago switched to the Hacker News 100 feed: http://talkfast.org/2010/07/23/a-cure-for-hacker-news-overlo...

I've been using this RSS feed of top stories: http://hnbest.herokuapp.com/
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